Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Playwriting: Five Tips for Getting Active by Laura A. Shamas, co-founder, the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative Often, we’re told, as playwrights, to focus on crafting dialogue, plot, character, theme, stage spectacle, conflict, and action, cast size and transformation. We’re encouraged to attend panels about creating theater [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – The Ten Commandments of Writing Book Reviews by Mayra Calvani, The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing 1. Thou shall have no other gods before the reader. The review is not about the author, nor the publisher, and especially, not about you, the reviewer. Reviews are all about [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – The Agent/Client Relationship by author Michele Wallerstein, MIND YOUR BUSINESS: A Hollywood Literary Agent’s Guide To Your Writing Career It’s always been interesting to me to see the variants in the agent/client relationship. Naturally, in the beginning a new writer wants desperately to get an agent. Transversely, [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing and Publishing a Cookbook by Laura Trice, M.D., author of The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook: More Than 100 Healthy Recipes for Everyday Snacking was labor of love for Dr. Laura Trice. It began in June of 2008, when an agent asked [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – From Writer to Tweeter by Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, co-founder of Scriptchat The first time I heard the word “Twitter,” I recoiled. What is a tweet? Who has time to tweet? Why would a serious writer ever participate in such nonsense? I had to jump in and find out. Simply put, Twitter [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – 10 Simple Steps to Market Your Book BEFORE It’s Published by Debra Gendel and Elle Saling, d+e media Before you finish writing a book it’s critical to lay the groundwork for attracting an audience. Having a marketing strategy in place shows agents and publishers that you’ve done [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Writing a TV Spec by Ross Brown 1. KNOW YOUR SHOW INSIDE AND OUT Step One to writing a great spec is doing your homework. Watch every episode of your series. Rent DVDs, record new episodes and take notes. How many [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Write for Recovery by Diane Sherry Case “I have forced myself to begin writing when I have been utterly exhausted, when I’ve felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes… and somehow the activity of writing [...]
Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing Exercises by Bob Yehling, The Write Time: 366 Exercises to Fulfill Your Writing Life Almost every morning, I work out for 20 to 30 minutes before starting another busy day. However, these workouts are different than my marathon training and fitness regimen. I open my journal, [...]
Increasing Your Blog’s Readership by Linda Fulkerson, The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Well The number-one question I get asked as a blog coach is “How do I get people to come to my blog?” Blog traffic streams flow from three areas: offline, on-site, and off-site. There are a lot of quick and easy tactics bloggers [...]
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The leader of Write On!, Debra has been a professional writer for more than 15 years. She has expertise in feature articles, corporate communications, and public speaking. Write On! is a virtual writers support group, which helps writers of all abilities, mediums, and specialties take their projects to the next level.
